Sorting an alphanumerical index

[PlatinumSpork]

Right now I am trying to correctly index a 600 page catalog. Everything is indexed and ready to go, so when I create my index, it jumbles the references. The problem that I am having is the index references are both alphabetical and alphanumerical. Is there a way to sort this correctly?

Right now, it displays like this:

I want this to sort in such a way that it displays the alphanumerical items as well as the numerical items in order, instead of sorting first by alphanumerics only and then numerical only. So it ends up looking something like this:

3AVOR56KOAD

31161-962

31162-962

etc.

If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks.

[Srishti Bali · Accepted solution]

Hi PlatinumSpork

Please check out below mentioned links.

https://indesignsecrets.com/sort-paragraphs-text-indesign.php

Design tip bits: Alphabetical list in InDesign

Create an index in InDesign

Regards

Srishti